The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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